{"product_id":"forty-years-a-giant-the-life-of-horace-stoneham-hardback-9781496224194","title":"Forty Years a Giant; The Life of Horace Stoneham (Hardback) 9781496224194","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eForty Years a Giant\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eThe Life of Horace Stoneham\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eSteven Treder (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781496224194\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 1 June 2021\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e536 pages, 31 photographs, index\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.666 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\"Steve Treder makes an important contribution to the field of baseball history with \u003ci\u003eForty Years a Giant\u003c\/i\u003e. Readers will soak up the fascinating story of Horace Stoneham, who, at long last, receives the attention he so richly deserves.\"-Jason Cannon, \u003ci\u003eNINE: A Journal of Baseball History and Culture\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“No one better understands the Giants of the mid-twentieth century than Steve Treder, so I knew this was a perfect pairing of author and subject. I was not disappointed. This is an absorbing look at one of baseball’s most fascinating teams.”-Mark Armour, author of \u003ci\u003eJoe Cronin: A Life in Baseball\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“Masterful. . . . This richly contextualized book rescues Stoneham from the sidelines of New York City’s baseball world and places him alongside Walter O’Malley in the story of the sport’s success in California, where he belongs. It is a delight.”-Roberta Newman, author of \u003ci\u003eHere’s the Pitch: The Amazing, True, New, and Improved Story of Baseball and Advertising\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“Horace Stoneham [was] a true baseball pioneer. . . . Giants fans especially will enjoy both Treder’s thorough narrative of the Stoneham years in New York and in San Francisco-the players, the games, the seasons-and his extensive and balanced portrait of the man most responsible for that history.”-Robert F. Garratt, author of \u003ci\u003eHome Team: The Turbulent History of the San Francisco Giants\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“Horace Stoneham may be one of the most underappreciated baseball executives of the twentieth century. Thanks to Steve Treder we now have a book that recognizes his significance and reflects the Giants’ prominence in many of the fascinating and consequential moments of more than five decades of baseball history.”-Daniel R. Levitt, author of \u003ci\u003eEd Barrow: The Bulldog Who Built the Yankees’ First Dynasty\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“Sometimes you just don’t know what you were missing until you’ve got it. More than players, more than coaches, more than anyone else really, it’s always been the owners who determine the fates of baseball franchises. Which makes it all the more surprising that Steve Treder’s outstanding book is the first comprehensive biography of Horace Stoneham, who owned one of baseball’s titanic teams through forty years of revolutionary change.”-Rob Neyer, author of Casey Award–winning \u003ci\u003ePower Ball: Anatomy of a Modern Baseball Game\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\"Treder's biography of long-time New York\/San Francisco Giants owner Horace Stoneham is a thorough exploration of his 40-year tenure in baseball ownership between 1936 and 1976.\"-Charlie Bevis, \u003ci\u003eBevis Baseball Research\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e2022 SABR Seymour Medal\u003cbr\u003e Finalist for the 2021 CASEY Award for Best Baseball Book of the Year\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e When New York Giants owner Charles A. Stoneham came home one night in 1918 and told his teenage son, Horace, “Horrie, I bought you a ballclub,” he set in motion a family legacy. Horace Stoneham would become one of baseball’s greatest figures, an owner who played an essential role in integrating the game, and who was a major force in making our pastime truly national by bringing Major League Baseball to the West Coast.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Horace Stoneham began his tenure with the Giants in 1924, learning all sides of the operation until he moved into the front office. In 1936, when his father died of kidney disease, Horace assumed control of the Giants at age thirty-two, becoming one of the youngest owners in baseball history.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Stoneham played a pivotal role in not just his team’s history but the game itself. In the mid-1940s when the Pacific Coast League sought to gain Major League status, few but Stoneham and Branch Rickey took it seriously, and twelve years later the Giants and Dodgers were the first two teams to relocate west. Stoneham signed former Negro Leaguers Monte Irvin and Hank Thompson, making the Giants the second National League franchise to racially integrate. In the late 1940s, the Giants hired their first Spanish-speaking scout and soon became the leading team in developing Latin American players.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Stoneham was shy and self-effacing and avoided the spotlight. His relationships with players were almost always strong, yet for all his leadership skills and baseball acumen, sustained success eluded most of his teams. In forty seasons his Giants won just five National League pennants and only one World Series.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The Stoneham family business struggled, and the team was forced to sell off its beloved stars, first Willie Mays, then Willie McCovey, and finally Juan Marichal. Then Stoneham had no choice but to sell the club in 1975. While his tenure came to an unfortunate end, he is heralded as a pioneer and leader whose story tells much of baseball history from the 1930s through the 1970s.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIntroduction         \u003cbr\u003e Prologue: Sunday, September 21, 1975    \u003cbr\u003e 1. Horrie, I Bought You a Ball Club    \u003cbr\u003e 2. Roaring into the Twenties    \u003cbr\u003e 3. Hard Truths        \u003cbr\u003e 4. Brooklyn Is Still in the League    \u003cbr\u003e 5. War, Peace, and Nice Guys    \u003cbr\u003e 6. We Knew Segregation Was Wrong    \u003cbr\u003e 7. Horace Stoneham Has Finally Got a Winner    \u003cbr\u003e 8. We Have No Chance to Survive Here    \u003cbr\u003e 9. Open Your Golden Gate    \u003cbr\u003e 10. It’\u003cbr\u003es Bye-Bye Baby    \u003cbr\u003e 11. No Cigar        \u003cbr\u003e 12. Certainly the Move Will Hurt Us    \u003cbr\u003e 13. Resilience        \u003cbr\u003e 14. I Never Thought I Would Trade Willie    \u003cbr\u003e 15. You Can’\u003cbr\u003et Get Discouraged    \u003cbr\u003e Epilogue        \u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments    \u003cbr\u003e Notes        \u003cbr\u003e Bibliography        \u003cbr\u003e Index    \u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52641223967000,"sku":"9781496224194","price":25.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/forty-years-a-giant-the-life-of-horace-stoneham-hardback-9781496224194","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}